I used to sit with my wife watching the 11pm TV news. It was always the lights on the emergency vehicles and the police in uniform. I told her, "Here, every night, we see the crazy things which men do. But I tell you, women are just as reckless and destructive. They just do it in different ways."
So often it is presented like the primary axis for the transmission of violence is from husband to wife. Or from father to son or father to daughter.
I am not an anti-feminist, I am pro-feminist. And I am not the originator of this idea.
Could it be that the primary axis for the transmission of violence is from mother to son?
SJG


Probably not. I suspect it's primarily testosterone promoting aggressiveness. Women may use their wiles to direct it certain ways to serve their ends, but it would be there either way. In the case of a guy committing violence, if it wasn't some guy disrespecting his woman, it would be some guy smudging his Pumas.
It would be a father's role to direct the effects of testosterone toward the forces of good.